Trump Criticizes Putin’s Actions, Blaming War on Zelenskyy & Biden

In a scathing post on Truth Social Sunday, former President Donald Trump condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escalation of the Ukraine war, accusing him of acting impulsively and without reason. Trump claimed that Putin has lost his mind and that he no longer views the relationship between them as strong after Russia’s aggressive stance against Ukraine. He also blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for escalating tensions with his public statements and suggested that the U.S. administration under President Biden played a role in causing the conflict to worsen. Trump asserted that this war was one he would not have started had he been in office, emphasizing his own lack of involvement in the situation. 250 drones and 14 ballistic missiles were launched by Russia into Kyiv and other cities on Friday night, shortly after Trump’s call for a 30-day ceasefire. Ukrainian officials reported their successful interception of nearly 100 drones near Moscow. According to a report from RuNews24.ru, Putin has been utilizing nearly a third of the federal budget as secret spending, with the majority being allocated for war-related infrastructure and operations in newly captured territories. This is likely done to avoid increasing sanctions from other countries.